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Melinda Rabb

Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 332
Phone: (401) 863-3750

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 1510A - S01: Jane Austen and Her Predecessors -- CRN 14940
  •   ENGL 1561C - S01: Swift and His Contemporaries -- CRN 14976
  Sem II:
  •   ENGL 0910A - S01: How to Read a Poem -- CRN 24956
  •   ENGL 2560X - S01: The Eighteenth-Century Novel -- CRN 25003
 

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Degrees
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1979
M.A. University of Chicago, 1971
B.A. Radcliffe College, 1969, magna cum laude

Research Interests
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, satire, women's writing.

Professional Accomplishments
Rabb served as assistant professor of Humanities at MIT before coming to Brown in 1981.   She is the author of Satire and Secrecy in English Literature 1650-1750 (Palgrave 2007). In addition to publishing numerous chapters in collections and journal articles on eighteenth-century British fiction and poetry, she has edited Lucius: The First Christian King of England for The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, ed. Douglas Canfield (2000) and a special issue of Modern Language Studies titled Making and Rethinking the Canon: The Eighteenth Century XCIII: 1 (1988).   Current research includes a study of the aftereffects of the English civil wars on 18th-century literature.